This is why it is necessary to study totemism as a religion before studying the totemic clan as a family group.
This is proved by the real etymology of the word, which is derived from dodaim, which means village or the residence of a family group.
It may be said in a general way that the clan is a family group, where kinship results solely from a common name; it is in this sense that the gens is a clan.
On the other hand, the member of such groups as are referred to in our examples above, has all, or nearly all, his relations fixed when he is born into a certain clan or family group.
The kindred or family group engaged in certain industries, but this was only part of its purpose.
It means not only the disintegration of the old kinship or family group, which is an economic, political, and religious unity as well.
Portraits of Agostino and Niccolo della Torre, 1515; Family Group; Portrait of Prothonotary Giuliano.
Under the Irish (and also Welsh) law of succession, by election from a family group, this difficulty was avoided.
Illustration: A Family Group, being Portraits of the Marquis of Worcester with Margaret his second wife, and their infant daughter Mary.
The men studied almost without exception preferred living as boarders with a family group, if possible.
She has the same ways of living open to her that are open to the man--boarding or lodging with a family group or setting up a co-operative household with a group of girls.
Each of these farmers regarded above all other things the success of his own farm and his own family group.
The packing of apples for market illustrates the transition from the farmer economy in which the ethical standards are those of the household, or family group, to the world economy in which the moral standards are those of the world market.
A number of the pictures are small-scale group or conversation piece paintings of English origin in which family and friends are assembled at tea, similar to Family Group, and they provide pictorial information on teatime modes and manners.
One becomes increasingly aware of this when looking at English paintings and prints of the early 18th century, such as Family Group (fig.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "family group" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
